But Hicks received a one-year conditional discharge for the reduced violation charge during her appearance in Fulton City Court.

Fulton police accused her of breaking into the home of Quentin J. Hicks, 43, on Rochester Street in the city last June 24 and taking items including a flat-screen television, DVD player, vacuum cleaner and air compressor.

Catherine Hicks was arrested one day after Quentin Hicks was arrested in the murder-for-hire plan.

Her ex-husband is serving a two-to-eight-year sentence in Elmira Correctional Facility after pleading guilty to felony attempted conspiracy. Originally, he was charged with felony conspiracy and criminal solicitation. Police said he tried to hire someone to kill Catherine Hicks.

“She’s been completely vindicated,” said her lawyer, Mary Felasco. “She was on her own property, they couldn’t prove it wasn’t her property.”